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Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/400D Digital Field Guide

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/400D Digital Field Guide
Author: Charlotte K. Lowrie
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book

List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $7.56
You Save: $12.43 (62%)



Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 reviews
Sales Rank: 19334

Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.6

ISBN: 0470110074
Dewey Decimal Number: 771.33
EAN: 9780470110072
ASIN: 0470110074

Publication Date: February 12, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
This full-color book is designed to tap the exploding market in serious digital photography with over 250 pages of new and beautiful photos, essential photography how-to information and no-fail formulas for getting great digital pictures with thenewly announcedCanon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/400D. It goes above and beyond competitive digital SLR books with step-by-step techniques that cover exposure, composition, and professional shooting tips on perspective, impact, and more. Charlotte K. Lowrie, author of two previous Digital Field Guides (see below), is an acclaimed photographer who was managing editor of editorial content for MSN Photos and now writes online instructional content for Canon.

Charlotte K. Lowrie (Woodinville, WA) is a freelance editorial and stock photographer and an award-winning writer. Her work has appeared in Popular Photography & Imaging and PHOTOgraphic magazines, and she is the author of the bestselling Canon EOS Digital Rebel Digital Field Guide as well as Adobe Camera Raw Studio Skills, the Canon EOS 30D Digital Field Guide, and Teach Yourself Visually Digital Photography, Second Edition, all from Wiley. Charlotte also teaches photography classes through BetterPhoto.com.


Customer Reviews:   Read 132 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars G Flood   August 10, 2008
Geoffrey Flood
Book is very easy to read and makes learning the capabilities of the camera easy.


3 out of 5 stars Good Read for New DSLR owners.   August 1, 2008
W. Normile (New Egypt, NJ)
Anyone who has purchased a Canon XTi will know that the literature that came with your camera does not go into any great detail about all of the features the camera has to offer. This book, will help clear up any questions, and does do a fair job of explaining some of the advanced features to you. While it is not all encompassing, it is better then what comes with the camera. This is a very good book for those moving from a point and shoot camera to the XTi.


5 out of 5 stars Good bang for your buck.   July 29, 2008
Pan_dal_us (Alaska)
For DSL novices (that'd be me) this book is a real fair price for what it contains. It's specific to the Rebel XTi 400D and I definitely recommend this manual to go with your camera. You'll get a nice manual with your camera too but Lowries' got allot of color photo's, her book is larger and easier to fold open and read. It's written for the lay person. Again, a good bang for your buck.


5 out of 5 stars Good Book for Beginners   July 29, 2008
K. Paden
I've had my canon rebel xti for a little over a year now and have played around with the settings and functions on it, but I never knew exactly what all the buttons/settings DID until I picked up this book and sat down with my camera and figured it all out. I enjoyed the clarity of the book, the photographs to help demonstrate examples, and the organization of the guide. All very handy and highly recomended to anyone who just doesn't yet know all their Rebel Xti has to offer!


3 out of 5 stars OK book. Awful example photos.   July 23, 2008
Nobby Jockey (Indianapolis, IN)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

The book has some good interesting advice and it is a good starting point that I have used in conjunction with some others. Has some interesting sections where the author gives you a breakdown on the types of lenses, exposure, ISO, etc. you need to consider for certain types of shots. Unfortunately, the photos provided as examples are pretty poor. The section on wedding photography has the "happy couple" standing in dappled light under a tree which totally screws up the image and, even worse, there is a massive shadow of some bloke's head on slap bang in the middle of the bride's dress. There are a number of other poor examples too, with very little in the way of "breathtaking" images that you would really want to copy.

If you only want to buy one book, I would recommend Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Books (both volumes are good). I also bought David D. Busch's Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/400D Guide to Digital SLR Photography and found that a marginally better read. I have found myself going back to the "Field Guide" just to look through the scenarios she gives though.

Bottom line: Decent book, but with some example photos that look like they were cracked off by my mum in order to meet some publishing deadline. You'll be informed but not inspired.